Narrative Shifting, Awareness Building
& Amplification of Marginalized Voices
About Trinice
Trinice Ìyá Fábùnmí McNally (she/her) is a Multi-disciplinary creative, educator, activist, and spiritualist committed to the liberation of oppressed people. She is a nationally recognized transformative leader passionate about developing strategies, campaigns/initiatives, and curating spaces for historically marginalized populations to transform & thrive through programmatic, advocacy & political education efforts. Trinice was born in London, England, by way of Jamaica as a great-grandchild of the Windrush generation. As an Ifá practitioner in the Yoruba Tradition, she is preparing to transition into a full-time practicing Ìyáloriśa (Obatala, Osun & Egbe) and Iyanífá. Currently, she works alongside her fiancé in assisting their Akapo (students) to reach their highest potential and position here on Earth (Aye).
Trinice currently serves as the founding director of the Center for Diversity, Inclusion & Multicultural Affairs at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC), founding director of the Envisioning Safety On Our Campuses Now Project (ESOC NOW), and is the executive director/CEO of TJM Forward Culture, Education, and Organizing Group, a creative educational consultant agency committed to developing art, program and organizing initiatives that mobilize societal change & transformation. She believes in the collective power of harnessing indigenous ancestral lineages, transnational organizing, and cultural work to educate, mobilize, heal and inspire change across spaces.
TJM Forward is the manifestation of this commitment and hopes to serve as a possibility and reminder to live on purpose, in divine motion. Trinice is a member of the NASPA, ACPA, LGBTQ+ Consortium, In Our Names Network, Black LGBTQ Migrant Project, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., Gamma Sigma Sigma National Service Sorority Inc., UndocuBlack Network, National Women’s Studies Association, HRC HBCU Advisory Council and currently is on the C-3 board of the Black Youth Project 100, and serves as an advisor to Off-White™.
Awards & Fellowships
Bethune-Cookman University Alumnus Top 40 under 40 (2016)
UDC Excellence in Service to Students (2019)
Kevin Zeese Emerging Activist Fellowship (2021)
Voqal Fellow 2021
Inaugural Black Justice Fellowship Nominee (2021)
Voqal Fellow (2021)
DC Black Pride Leadership Award (2021)
UDC Division of Student Development & Success Innovation & Leadership Impact Award (2022)
Human Rights Campaign HBCU Truth Award (2022)